Eight of Our Favorite In-Universe Superfans
Screenshot: Lionsgate Knives Out is a miraculous film for many reasons, but chief among them is Trooper Wagner, the junior officer of the team investigating mystery author Harlan Thrombey’s suicide/possible murder. Rather than writing yet another good cop/bad cop or by the books/rogue cop dynamic, Rian Johnson gives us Detective Lieutenant Elliott, laconic and deadpan in the face of the Thrombey family’s privileged cluelessness, paired with with Trooper Wagner, a starstruck fan of both Thrombey’s mystery novels and Mr. Benoit Blanc, Gentleman Detective. Trooper Wagner doesn’t even tr...
Source: tor.com